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Taro Aso, Japan's Finance Minister who has a serious problem with foot-in-mouth disease says Let Elderly People 'Hurry Up and Die' Taro Aso said on Monday that the elderly should be allowed to "hurry up and die" to relieve pressure on the state to pay for their medical care.

Taro Aso, Japan's Finance Minister who had a serious problem with foot-in-mouth disease says Let Elderly People 'Hurry Up and Die'
Taro Aso said on Monday that the elderly should be allowed to "hurry up and die" to relieve pressure on the state to pay for their medical care.

Protesters in Hong Kong are demonstrating against the mainland's encroachment on the autonomous territory's politics. Yet Beijing has leaned on a blunt form of power and even coercion over the island since the moment it took control of Hong Kong in 1997: its military presence in the territory, which the mainland has actually been trying to deepen for much of this year.

NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden's decided to leave Hong Kong after he learned he could spend years in prison without access to a computer during the process to determine his asylum in Hong Kong or extradition to the U.S.,

Former NSA contractor Edward Snowden spent several days, including his 31st birthday, in the Russian consulate in Hong Kong before flying to Moscow on June 23, according to a report in the Russian newspaper Kommersant.